udon
@udon@lemmy.world
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 3 days ago:
Trick question, Wolf is a male surname.
- Comment on Country music 4 days ago:
International collaborations?
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 2 weeks ago:
Just added a downvote because there were already 145 (wtf?) and I wanted to be part of it! Highest number I’ve seen here so far, congrats!
I wonder how many others just thought it’s fun to jump on the downvote train. Nothing personal and there are worse things to worry about than a random count on a random website
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 2 months ago:
The whole Musk takeover is much less relevant/interesting for people outside the western context. I asked a few friends in Japan why they still use Twitter, but they just don’t care about the platform and ownership as long as they can still interact with their friends there. Curious how the botification will affect that over time, though.
- Comment on those damn vegans! 2 months ago:
Yes, sounds awesome! And let’s embed that chamber with a massive near-vacuum, so if you try to leave it, you suffocate. Also, it’s a giant, spinning blob in the middle of nowhere, with a gravity center at its core so you physically can’t even get away from it without a massive propulsion system and then what - go to the next random blob that offers nothing? Haha, I like your idea!
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 2 months ago:
Yeah, but I’m not convinced by their approach anymore as a sustainable solution. Luckily the phone feature race has mostly come to a halt, so there is a chance now for free OS options to come up (which is what we’re seeing at the moment).
The part about tracking where the material comes from us good in principle, but mostly as a proof of concept so regulators can increase pressure on big manufacturers (if Fairphone can do it, apple/Samsung should also be able to). But regulators don’t regulate, unfortunately
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 2 months ago:
Well, with fp1 specifically Google was not the main culprit. The phone used a chip (I think by mediatek?) and the producer didn’t publish the drivers. The Fairphone team promised to reverse engineer that for a while and at some point just said they won’t do it after all. That was the reason you couldn’t install other images on it, not cpu speed
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 2 months ago:
Same here, they lost me after fp1 which didn’t receive security updates anymore. FP2 had this weird rubber band that got loose quickly with everyone I know who had one. Stopped following after that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ha, never thought of it like that. Although everyday Japanese also uses the alphabet occasionally, so you kind of have 4 alphabets to learn? 5 if you count Arabic numbers?
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 2 months ago:
👟👟 Here, hope they fit!
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 2 months ago:
@KingWizard is right, you don’t understand the fundamentals of this. You’re asking good questions, but people have been asking them decades ago and already found reasonably good answers. HTTPS works okay for what it does. Check out letsencrypt, watch some talks about it. Informing yourself about the matter will get you further than asking more random questions on lemmy.
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 2 months ago:
Sure, but one thing we learned is that encryption sure makes things more annoying for them
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 2 months ago:
That’s a good theory sir/lady, and actually was the case until around 10 years ago.
Then Snowden happened, and we found out that the nsa is sucking all unencrypted traffic out of the net and into their databases.
Then letsencrypt happened and now you can get your certificates for free. Don’t pay 1000$. Letsencrypt is free and you can automatically update certificates. If your hoster doesn’t offer https for free, choose a different hoster.
- Comment on it's back 2 months ago:
*lasanyer
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 3 months ago:
“Passion”… What a concept!?
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 3 months ago:
IIRC, in former east Germany you couldn’t just study whatever you want (topic of this entire post). If you’re parents went to uni, you can’t. Oversimplified, because of course there were options if you were part of the party, but I’m not sure that strengthens the point.
I don’t know how that worked in Russia.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 3 months ago:
Yeah, try being a nurse these days if you want to play life in hard mode
- Comment on xkcd #2892: Banana Prices 3 months ago:
ah thanks, I did miss some context there. I think I watched the first 1 or 2 episodes until a banana stand with a lot of money inside burned down or something. Didn’t catch me
- Comment on xkcd #2892: Banana Prices 3 months ago:
Missing some context here (?)
I was just saying that banana monoculture combined with specialized fungi could mean that we don’t have bananas for much longer, at least not for as cheap as they are now
- Comment on xkcd #2892: Banana Prices 3 months ago:
Not accounting for the Panama disease though
- Comment on Lol 3 months ago:
Handed doesn’t have to mean “give” either
- Comment on Lol 3 months ago:
Lol
- Comment on Unnamed island 3 months ago:
1 - England
- Comment on family sized lasanyer 3 months ago:
Please don’t lasan’ya shoes!
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 3 months ago:
The problem with most rss readers IMHO is that they lack a decent filter function. ttrss had great filters, but I stopped using it when they switched their dev process (I think to docker at the time, which I couldn’t use with my hoster). Now using rss guard, not too happy but surviving.
RSS is great, but often contains a lot of noise. If you can filter only what you care about, great. Otherwise it’s just information overload.
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 3 months ago:
Decades are a temporal unit
- Comment on Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing? 7 months ago:
Reasons for average people to use metaverse:
- Facebook has no control of hardware platforms vs. Google/Apple. Now that Android and ios have stricter tracking protection against 3rd parties, fb can’t track and sell ads as they used to. By buying into the metaverse you help keep the Facebook business survive.
- ???
Doesn’t look good I guess